Proceedings of the 2022 7th International Conference on Modern Management and Education Technology (MMET 2022)

How Does Relative Leader-Member Exchange Influence Employee Proactive Behavior? The Roles of Pride, Shame, and Internal Attribution Tendency

Authors
Yumeng Ye1, *, Meng Wang1
1School of Business Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 893806309@qq.com
Corresponding Author
Yumeng Ye
Available Online 9 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-51-0_13How to use a DOI?
Keywords
relative leader-member exchange (RLMX); proud; shame; internal attribution tendency; employee proactive behavior
Abstract

The relative leader-member exchange (RLMX) relationship is a subjective perception of the relative status under the team background after comparing the individual leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship with others in the group. This study drew on attribution theory and affective events theory and investigated the influence mechanism of relative leader-member exchange (RLMX) on employee proactive behavior via employees’ different emotions. Moreover, we examined the moderating effect of employees’ internal attribution tendency. We collected data from 377 employees at 2 points in time to obtain the hierarchical regression results. The results concluded that individual RLMX positively related to employee proactive behavior, and both pride and shame mediated the positive relationship. Furthermore, it was found that RLMX had a stronger indirect effect on employee proactive behavior via pride when the internal attribution tendency was higher (vs. lower), while the relationship via shame was stronger when the internal attribution tendency was lower (vs. higher).

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 7th International Conference on Modern Management and Education Technology (MMET 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
9 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-51-0_13
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-51-0_13How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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AU  - Yumeng Ye
AU  - Meng Wang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/09
TI  - How Does Relative Leader-Member Exchange Influence Employee Proactive Behavior? The Roles of Pride, Shame, and Internal Attribution Tendency
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 7th International Conference on Modern Management and Education Technology (MMET 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 94
EP  - 108
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-51-0_13
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